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System Information:
Hardware: Dell Latitude 7400 with Intel UHD 620 graphics
OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
Kernel: 6.8
Desktop: GNOME 46
Previous OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (where hardware acceleration worked)
What I expected to happen:
Hardware-accelerated video decoding (VAAPI) should work in all applications
including web browsers (Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Chromium) and VLC media player,
as it did in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
What actually happened:
After upgrading from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, hardware video acceleration stopped
working in all Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Chrome) and VLC. Only mpv media
player retains working VAAPI hardware acceleration.
Steps to reproduce:
Upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Install Microsoft Edge or Chrome browser
Enable VAAPI flags: --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder --use-gl=desktop
--ignore-gpu-blocklist
Navigate to edge://gpu or chrome://gpu
Play YouTube video and check DevTools Media tab
Observe: Video Decoder shows "FFmpegVideoDecoder" instead of
"VDAVideoDecoder"
Diagnostic information:
vainfo shows Intel iHD driver loaded correctly
intel_gpu_top shows Video engine at 3-15% when playing video in mpv
(working)
intel_gpu_top shows 0% Video engine usage when playing in browsers (not
working)
Running LIBVA_MESSAGING_LEVEL=1 mpv video.mkv confirms VAAPI working
VLC package from Ubuntu repository has no VAAPI support compiled in
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: acceleration hardware
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Hardware video acceleration (VAAPI) broken in Chromium-based browsers, Firefox,
VLC after upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2129166
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